Humidity problem?

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scottandlorig

scottandlorig

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Dec 18, 2010
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Davison, MI.
We have brazilian Cherry wood floors through out our ranch and I have noticed for the first time it is starting to separate. We never had this problem before.

I have a whole house humidifier on my forced air furnace. We are going on 2 weeks of not having to use the furnace because of our new fireplace.
This has resulted in a very dry house. I started putting a pan of H2o in front of the fireplace but thought I would see if anyone has this problem and how they are dealing with it.
 
I have the same flooring in my home. Opened up last winter, closed back up in the spring, they're doing the same this year. I have radiant heat , but the insode humidity is 29% right now- was double that in September
 
All I can tell you is different wood species have different rates of expansion/contraction.Hard Maple is pretty stable,Red Oak moves quite a bit.American/Black Cherry & Black Walnut are very stable once dried slowly.
 
It's not unusual for the flooring or furniture to shrink from the low humidity. I bought the big Honeywell 11 gallon console humidifier HCM-6012i with digital humidistat and keep it on 35%, 30% if it goes below 10F outside. Am very pleased with it, pretty quiet and only have to refill every 2 days and replace the filter once a year. I ordered from Amazon. Once you raise the humidity it may take as long or longer for the floor to expand back.
 
I am running 2 of the floor humidifier's on as hi as they will go 37 my level right now. Out put 10 gallons a day house is 2600sqft.
 
I run my gas furnace about an hour a day and the humidifier on it helps.
 
I had this one from Lowes for 3 years now and I have no complaints at all (well except that I go through 5 gallons of water per day)
Great big unit!
 

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That's a nice one.
 
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